Case Study – Europe – Payroll, Accounts and Tax - SAL Account

“... Our turnover increased immediately by approximately 10% as every single hour got billed...” Ruud Mooi, SAL ACCOUNT, Netherlands

Who is SAL Account?…

SAL ACCOUNT is a specialist in the field of wage and payroll advice. SAL account helps employers with advice in many areas of HR related issues. The products and services offered by SAL Account are modular so customers are given flexibility to pick and choice from SALs expertise to meet their requirements. SAL Account can offer SMEs a comprehensive one stop shop for advice and assistance to ensure they meet their statutory obligations for Labour, social security and payroll tax.

SAL Account offers advice in the following areas:

• Employment
• Administrative Management
• International consultancy
• Accounts and Taxation advice/services

SAL Account is committed as an independent and proactive provider of specialized services for professionalism of HR and remuneration polices within companies and organisations. It guarantees the continuity and quality of processing their customers payroll and personnel requirements.

Issues before Using Timesheet Xpress…

As with many professional consultants, available billable time is critical to the turnover and ultimately profitability of SAL Account. Prior to their use of Timesheet Xpress, SAL Account used standard spreadsheets in the main to record time spent on customer or administrative activities. The main problem SAL Account encountered was that the spreadsheets regularly had appeared to be completed in different layouts, formats and abbreviations for similar customers or activities were varied among employees. Having to wade through this information in a variety of formats required numerous hours on a regular basis in order to establish the facts for customers invoices, so the process of billing clients became an onerous task; many hours were spent on a monthly basis attempting to gather ‘accurate’ information. In order to remain competitive with their costs and providing a slick and accurate project management aspect to ongoing client work, SAL Account decided to search for a solution to their internal process dilemmas that would offer them a seamless integration to existing billing procedures.

“... Lots of hours never found their way to the customer’s bill...” said Ruud

Since Using Timesheet Xpress…

Since the implementation of Timesheet Xpress, SAL Account have streamlined their internal administrative processes greatly, not only saving time in the process but effectively tracking accurate information on times spent working with or for clients and ensuring every hour is billed appropriately.

Ruud explained that almost overnight, their company turnover increased by approximately 10% by simply ensuring all hours available for billing actually reached the customers invoice

“We never ever get any questions about our invoices as we send the excellent time and billing specifications along with the invoice, Clients really appreciate theses details as it makes them feel confident about our reliability and provides a great deal of transparency”

From a management perspective, Timesheet Xpress has also provided a great insight to employees and productivity analysis, it allows not only management to see where time is being spent in the business, but also gives employees data that justifies their working time and activities completed for customers. Ruud went on to say,

“It is all about fair-play really ... We can fully concentrate now on our clients’ needs. Timekeeping is no longer a time consuming hassle but a very small and effective part of our daily routine” Ruud Mooi expressed gratefully.

About Timesheet Xpress…

As the leading application based product for logging and managing project efficiencies in any organisation, Timesheet Xpress is being used by thousands of users in over 40 countries.

The software is easily installed on either stand alone or network computers and offers a range of configurations for use in organisations of all sizes from independent consultants relying on accurate tracking of “billable hours” to large corporations who are concerned not only with project management and staff productivity but also with timely management information for the purposes of workforce management and staff optimisation when forecasting and scheduling outputs.

Timesheet Xpress will monitor organisational productivity and performance through time and attendance with quick and easy to use reporting.

With accurate and timely information, effective planning and decisions can be confidently made leading to increases in business competitiveness.

With links to various applications such as Microsoft Project and Excel, Timesheet Xpress offers a seamless integration into many existing business applications in organisations of all sizes and in many sectors.

For more information please visit www.TimesheetXpress.com It is possible to download an unrestricted trial of Timesheet Xpress for a 35 day period.